and the center for constitutional rights on behalf of nasra locky and the family of samir khan announcer a lockie is the father of the locky who was killed by a u.s. drone strike in yemen on september thirtieth of two thousand and eleven so near khan was killed in that same drone strike and abdul rauf on a lockie on where a sixteen year old son was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen on october fourteenth of two thousand and eleven all three were u.s. citizens none ever saw a courtroom in the u.s. and were not granted due process and we've never been given evidence by the government asked to operational role in which they claim so may or may have been a propagandist working on english language man magazine inspire but did he deserve to be killed and adore mom was a sixteen year old boy at the administration is never publicly spoken about his death so let's find out more about this legal challenge and what we might expect to be the government's response joining me now to discuss it is nathan fried wessler fellow at the a.c.l.u. national security project and nathan thanks for joining us